The Irish Worker

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PRICE 1d. Who is it speak of defeat? I tell you a cause like ours; Is greater than defeat can know. It is the power of power. As rulers as the earth nully as the glorious sun. Bring the great world moon wave Must out Cause be won! Registered at G.P.O. Transmissible through the post in Powered England at newspaper Yate, and to Canada and New Guardland at magazine rate of postage. Edited by JIM LARKIN. No. 26 - Vol. IV.] DUBLIN, SATURDAY, NOV. 7th, 1914. 1 [ONE PENNY.] WE SERVE NEITHER KING NOR KAISER. What Africanders Owe the Empire. By James Connolly. Perhaps the worst blow sustained by the British forces during this war has been the revolt in South Africa. It was a blow too that the military arrangements of the Africans, but a blow of more telling to that impalable, but nevertheless highly important thing which cements together the policy of British Imperialism and has been told that all was well with the Empire in South Africa. The Boers were reconciled to British rule, and the entire Africander race had accepted its status as loyal subject, and since the war started we have continually been told that in a spectacle of Boer and Briton fighting on the bottleries of Europe shoulder to shoulder against the common German census. Some of us doubted the story. Some of us wondered whether it was really possible for that trade to create an empire to a subsidiary foreign and foreign liability destruction of all that it had held sacred, and to become in the same space of time an active accomplice in inflicting one another people horrors such as it had suffered under so recently. The Boers had not forgotten in 1900 years. Can the Boers undergo a revolt in a dozen? The revolt of De Met has answered that question, as it is now clear that De La Rey would have answered it had an English bullet not "accidentally" taken him off before his plans were matured. And now in the Cape in the Orange Free State, and in the Transval there are men in arms fired with a desperate determination to recompet themselves and their children's children those one of the most immigrants warn in history deprived them. Will they succeed? We know not. But we do know that we have great little resources to compete the Boers and that she had to send against them a quarter of a million of men, and that now that her entire naval and military forces are engaged with the most formidable census England has ever constructed the chance for the Africander Republic becoming a reality looks more feasible than ever. Certainly the adhesion of Botha to England will count against the chances of Boer land, but Botha fighting against his own people and for a regular army will not count for as much in a military sense as the Boer under the Boers on the other side. The forces under the Generals flags were not conquered by military force during the Boer war, they were competed to surrender to preyent the ambiliation of their women and children in the concentration camps. And General Botha now don't employ a…